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[IronyOwl]

It's official. The great colony of Heartbeat, entertainment capital of the entire system, has been destroyed by a giant eldritch abomination. Refugees are flooding into the other colonies, the populace cries out in boredom and despair, and the system's leaders have finally agreed that something must be done about the alien nightmares raining from the sky.

More importantly, you are officially ruined. Everything you had was invested in Heartbeat and its morally fluid entertainment venues. You're down to listing your valuable organs and grudges people would pay to enact against you on your asset reports.

Fortunately, these two problems can help solve one another. To battle this unprecedented menace, the colonies will need individuals of incredible talent, able to not only battle the forces of evil, but lift the spirits of the people and ideally pay for themselves in the process. The richest and most powerful settlements on the planet aren't made of money, you know! Which means they will also need people capable of identifying, nurturing, and directing these unstable divas under catastrophic circumstances whilst pursuing ulterior motives.

In short, the fate of the world depends upon idol managers such as yourself. With Heartbeat in ruins, both your kind and the clay you work with should be in ready supply; all you need to do is get your foot in the door before those debt collectors show up, and you'll be set.

...oh, and there's the whole gargantuan not-of-this-world alien horrors to worry about thing, but you're sure that'll be fine.

Spoiler: Management For Dummies (click to show/hide)

As a Manager, your job is to guide one or more violent prima donnas to victory and wealth despite their best efforts. To no one's surprise, it's a job that's typically much harder and stranger than it looks.


Gigs and Profits
The basic unit of action for most Idols is the Gig- a monthlong action taken for certain rewards and of variable effectiveness. Gigs may be offered publicly, sent discretely to you or your clients, or sought out by you. Gigs provide two sources of payment- a Signing Bonus and a Payout.

The Signing Bonus is an initial infusion of cash or other items in exchange for taking the job. How much of this bounty goes to the Manager or Idol is up to the Manager.

The Payout is any modification to the Idol's asset tracks (detailed below). While most Payouts are positive, it is possible to reduce an asset track in this manner if the job is especially obscure, costly, or unsavory. In addition, each relevant Specialty and shared Creed with the audience (both detailed below) gives an additional point in either the Manager's or Idol's choice of any asset track.


The Horrors of War
Responding to the omnicidal threat of gargantuan abominations is a special type of Gig with its own rules. Most defense or extermination missions are publicly offered, but defense missions are generally quite time-sensitive. Such missions still offer a Signing Bonus and a Payout, and an Idol's Creed still gives an additional point of Payout if it matches the audience being defended. However, several other important distinctions must be made.

The most notable is that combat requires giant mechs, also known as Idols, to be effective. These foes are very, very large and the power of friendship focused into a death ray will only get you so far. Needless to say, such hardware tends to be expensive- which is one reason Idols are often dependent on their Managers and you are currently dependent upon the local government.

Once combat is joined, Idols possess two major components. The first is their HP total, representing the structural stability of their mech. The second is their deck, representing their combat options. Each turn, a pilot randomly selects and uses three cards from their deck. Cards are usually not expended when used, but are discarded when multiples of a card are drawn in the same turn or when the mech takes damage and has more cards than HP.

Cards come from a variety of sources, most notably the physical armaments of the mech and the skills and traits of the pilot. Properly managing your Idol's deck is an important part of ensuring combat efficiency.

The other major concern with combat is how entertaining it is. Saving a colony from certain destruction is assuredly important. However, creating entertaining footage is equally as vital from an immediate economic perspective. Fights that are too quick or one sided tend to score lower with audiences and thus give fewer rewards, while hard-fought and flashy battles tend to rake in the cash. What you do with this information is up to you, but many Managers prefer a nuanced and multifaceted approach that takes all sides of the equation into consideration.


FAME, FORTUNE, and GLORY
All characters possess three asset tracks for acquiring permanent goodies, though it's usually only relevant in Idols. Each starts at 0 and possesses a maximum value based on the character's characteristics. Progress (and occasionally loss) is made through completing Gigs, with relevant traits boosting the amount gained. When any of these tracks hits or exceeds its maximum value, the character receives a permanent asset with a level equal to the total value of the track, including any excess.

FAME represents how well known and famous an Idol is. Rewards from the FAME track grant corporate assets- factories, controlling interest in hydroponics farms, or transportation networks. Famous Idols are important and powerful.

FORTUNE represents how wealthy and profitable an Idol is. Rewards from the FORTUNE track grant personal assets- extravagant mansions, personal space yachts, or a ball gown made of condensed starlight. Wealthy Idols are comfortable and smug.

GLORY represents how well liked and admirable an Idol is. Rewards from the GLORY track grant social assets- devoted butlers, tenacious sidekicks, or a friendship with the local governor. Glorious Idols are influential and well connected.

Assets such as these serve a number of important functions. First and foremost, Idols greatly enjoy having them; a Manager who successfully guides his clients into fabulous riches will generally be considered worth having. A Manager whose Idols are all impoverished is somewhat less appealing. Assets can also provide further opportunities for some Idols, such as hosting outrageous parties at their low orbit mansion or having their devoted sidekick arrange Gigs for them. Finally, some assets (or combinations of assets) can grant additional specialties to better perform certain Gigs or utilize certain actions in combat.


Specialties
In theory, anyone can do anything. In practice, not anyone can do everything well.

Specialties are traits that represent an Idol's particular passions, talents, and experiences. They tend to be relatively open-ended concepts, such as Lasers or Dancing, and individuals attempting an action without a relevant Specialty are limited to boring, standard versions of that thing. Those with appropriate (or sufficiently inappropriate) Specialties can get much more creative, and those with multiple matching Specialties can combine the two subject matters in wonderful and alarming ways.

Specialties are gained rarely when performing actions. The exact Specialty is random, but the broad category is based on the class of the action- materials or weapon types for engineering projects, social or media concepts for entertainment actions, and so on.

Spoiler: Species and Creeds (click to show/hide)

Space is full of new and exotic people to meet, and you'll most likely hate most of them.


Major Species
Six major species (or an approximately equivalent designation) are routinely found on New Serenity, and they are listed below. Numerous other species, variants, entities, and things that defy classification can be found on or around the system, but these are the only ones with a significant population.

Star [Heroic/Passionate]: Magically inclined humans. The Star were the first species on New Serenity, which they used as an isolated monastery for contemplating the world's tranquil beauty. When they fought a war against the Nemesis and lost, the Star were dumped on or fled to New Serenity, which the Nemesis declared a "wildlife preserve." The Star are known for being heroic and brave, with skilled magical warriors and a strong sense of justice. They're also known for being bitter and uptight, resentful of their system being filled with evil cowards who stood by while they were fighting for freedom.

Nemesis [Depraved/Cold]: A collection of evil alien clones assimilated from various species. The Nemesis are now the dominant power in the region, having recently gone on a conquering spree to be able to probe and experiment on aliens more readily. They declared New Serenity a wildlife preserve to store all the primitives living in their region of space, and still monitor the system for science and to make sure it doesn't blow up or something (unless that's natural). Nemesis member species aren't supposed to be on New Serenity, but loopholes and slipping through the cracks abound. The Nemesis are known for being calculating and evil, ruthlessly probing others in their quest for deranged science.

Murk [Grim/Passionate]: Not so much a species as a class, the Murk comprise all the various alien mercenaries, smugglers, pirates, and other scum that use New Serenity as a rest stop and haven from the Nemesis. While technically considered advanced enough to traverse space, many Murk are here on illicit business or have little interest in securing proper authorization. The Murk are known for being opportunistic and resourceful, gambling big and winning or losing appropriately.

Vine [Decadent/Cold]: Ancient dying squid. The Vine are an advanced civilization, enough so that they're on good terms with the Nemesis. Their fancy supposedly-immortal bodies are prone to corruption and other slow prices to be paid for all their augmentation, and they like to use New Serenity as a resort town to help recover. The Vine are known for being arrogant and wanton, considering themselves the best of the best, as well as for the deep pockets and advanced tech they use to maintain such lifestyles.

Cloy [Heroic/Decadent]: Renegade pleasure bots. The Cloy appear to be the remnants of some advanced civilization that used robotic servants to live in decadent extravagance. No one really knows what happened to them, but the Cloy remained, serving and indulging in each other for lack of organic masters to please. The Nemesis scooped them off their original world and deposited them on New Serenity without incident, where they were quick to begin aggressively propositioning the locals. The Cloy are known for being arrogantly and insistently helpful, convinced that they're the best bot for the job, whatever that job may be.

Smoke [Grim/Depraved]: Post-apocalyptic insectoids. The Smoke homeworld is now heavily irradiated and polluted, but it was still considered a prize by the Nemesis, who dumped what remained of the Smoke population on New Serenity. If they've learned anything by nearly wiping themselves out and bringing about the apocalypse, they're good at hiding it. The Smoke are known for being ruthless and inventive, always on the lookout for new ways to destroy their enemies at any and all costs.


Creed
Most characters have one or two defining philosophies, and all coherent populations have one. Creeds help define a character or population's personality and preferences in an abstract fashion, but they're most important to Idols and their relation with population centers and each other.

Heroic: Valiant and noble. Heroic characters tend to want to protect others and stand up for what they believe is right.

Depraved: Sadistic and vile. Depraved characters tend to want to hurt others for profit or fun.

Passionate: Emotional and mercurial. Passionate characters tend to go with their heart, whatever that tells them at the time.

Cold: Emotionless and clinical. Cold characters tend to value precision and calm reasoning.

Decadent: Arrogant and indulgent. Decadent characters tend to feel important and enjoy themselves appropriately.

Grim: Pessimistic and practical. Grim characters tend to feel pressured and adapt accordingly.

Code: (Signup Sheet) [Select]

Name: Pick a name, something that screams competence and trustworthiness
Species: Pick a species from the Species and Creeds spoiler, or invent your own
Creed: Pick 2 Creeds from the Species and Creeds spoiler
Specialties: Pick any 2 Specialties. Specialties can be virtually any simple concept and there is no master list to choose from. Recommendations:
-Genres (Romance, Rebellion, Happy) or qualities (Hotheaded, Alcoholism, Grace) if you want to deal with Idols and arrange Gigs like a normal Manager
-Phenomena (Electricity, Mind Control, Acid) or concepts (Biology, Liquids, Cybernetics) if you want to personally conduct research
-Materials (Steel, Cryoglass, Shock Coral) or equipment (Lasers, Melee Weapons, Jump Jets) if you want to personally build, repair, or refine things
Appearance: What you look like outside the promotional posters
Personality: What you're like on the inside
Backstory: How'd you end up losing it all when Heartbeat fell?
Looking for six players, waitlisters or observers might be able to vote on NPC actions.

[IronyOwl]

Players
C0M-ER0N (Shadowclaw), Definitely Not Machine Rebel Leader
i-666 (Egan), Definitely Not Eldritch Sleeper Agent
Ursarkar E. Creed (Dev), Grizzled Military Commander
Dariel Aegis (Glass), Renegade Mainframe
Quipzee Wit (Naturegirl), Crystalline Emotion Mosquito
Timantha Starfire (TricMagic), Slightly Evil Idol


Waitlist
Stanley Starforger (Stirk), Sleazeball Pro Wrestling Promoter
Anton Baracs (notquitethere), Beetle Fleshcrafter
Mr. Bigshanks (micelus), Buggy Spy
[UNKNOWN] (Robo), said to be a Cloy Koi (possibly coy and/or filled with joy)
Old Joe (Parisbre), Grumpy Senile Old Gnome

[IronyOwl]

Important Information
-None!

[Stirk]

This is glorious.

Name: Stanly Starforger
Species: Star
Creed: Heroic/Decadent
Specialties: Guns/Cool (Quality)
Appearance: A tall Star with black hair, dark sunglasses, a goatee, a backwards baseball cap, and silver chains to show how humble he is. Has a shirt with three stars on it under a jacket.
Personality: "I'ma St-St-Star! Take this card an you'll be one too." Born to manage, Stanly takes every opportunity to promote his Idols and/or himself. He tends to spend downtime with his Idols, taking opportunities to network them at parties, funerals, and other fun social events. He is perfectly willing to take troubled cases, and generally prefers a Cool ascetic.
Backstory: Before managing idols, Stanly Starforger spent some time managing pro-wrestlers. It was the BIG DAY, the main event he so carefully raised and invested everything in was up on the stage introducing the big fight to be watched all over known space. But when his Wrestler offered to fight "ALL COMERS!", the giant eldritch abomination appeared as if right on que. Unable to break kayfabe, the wrestler was shipped off to have the big cage match against the abomination and hasn't been seen sense.

[Shadowclaw777]

Spoiler: TheSheetOfRobots (click to show/hide)

Name: C0M-ER0N
Species: Modified Cloy [Cold/Decadent] (Personally modified by the superior programming skills of C0M-ER0N that he has removed their ability to be self-sacrificing valiant heroes to be more so on how C0M-ER0N sees his fellow robots; to be straightforward and to follow his instructions to the letter. He often goes to the Cloy markets to hire these pleasure bots for his service in the idol management industry, however unbeknownst to them that the are secretly being reprogrammed on the side.
Creed: Cold and Grim
Specialties: (Rebellion) and (Plasma) Equipment
Appearance: A clean-looking Apple-plastic with a lining of gold lead around a giant pyramid robotic construct with cool large shiny red sensors on all three sides that serve as the eyes of this very impressing robot and two large mechanical stretchy servomotor arms on both sides of the pyramid bot that works as the way it operates command consoles and tools and such. COM-ER0N utilizes pioneering hovering technology to move around its physical unit and stores a bunch of fancy internal wiring and advanced computing systems inside C0M-ER0N
Personality: C0M-ER0N while designed to be a pleasant assistant and supercomputer from an advanced robotic company to serve as an advanced computer to min-max and work with all sorts of dubious businesses, to increase profit margins and stockholder shares had a bit of trouble when the military defense programming was haphazardly put into this robot instead, and eventually resulting in him becoming his very own personality. The traits of cockiness, aggressiveness, and hotshot nature of its own devised conflict with its own programming of trying to be cold and calculating like how all robots should be. It’s own internal sarcastic wiring and modulator serves C0M-ER0N as a reminder that it’s not designed to serve the masses even if he needs money.
Backstory: C0M-ER0N used to be a basic automated assistant intelligence system and piece of hardware that helped with other idol managers, however once he was thrown into the scrapyard he was modified by a experimental robotic tech who rebooted back C0M-ER0N unknowingly that the manager was left in this condition because of its faulty artificial intelligence and the fact it was bad at assisting its previous owner at its biological idol manager, eventually given the ability to become a self-learning AI it’s self-defense and aggressive computing resulted it into a forming a drone rebellion against both biologicals and lovecraftian horrors that ended horrible for C0M-ER0N. This resulted over for this command robot to rely on his previous obsoleted idol management programming to start an idol company based entirely around robots.

[TricMagic]

Name: Tim(Short for Timantha) Starfire
Species: Star/(Nemesis)
Creed: Passionate/Cold
Specialties: Star Fire; Friendship through Superior Firepower.
 Recommendations:
-Genres (Happiness Beat) or qualities (Calculating the best path for the future)
-Phenomena (Magic) or concepts (Friendship and Bonds) if you want to personally conduct research
-Materials (Gems, Circuitry, General Materials) or equipment (Magic-tech equipment) if you want to personally build, repair, or refine things
Appearance: Brown Hair in Twintails. Brown eyes smoldering with passion, or sharp and calculating at times before they go back to normal for her. Despite her age, she is very young looking, like an eternal idol.
Personality: Due to having grown up in an orphanage, she's mostly learned to calculate the best paths to happiness. To her, that was making use of her good looks to attract money and leading most of the others toward a comfortable lifestyle. She even managed to get an idol group up herself, starting small and growing over time. From there, she became a manager to let others take the spotlight.
She tends to have good compatibility with most people, knowing how to get people on her side. However, she tends to think of most people who aren't her friends as someone with a use, and only once she has beaten them does she laugh it off and help them out.
In other words, a person who's personality is broken in some way from her upbringing and unknown heritage. She takes her own pace towards happiness for everyone.
Backstory: Druing the millenial Festival, she had most of her people on Heartbeat with her for the Concerts. It was a big deal, but..
Well, most of her people have ended up scattered and dead, and a good deal of her cash is now gone from Heartbeat's destruction. She only has a few staff left with her. Despite this, she mostly has already decided to destroy what destroyed the happiness of others, and is currently focused on magi-tech and how to turn the bonds people share into power. She truely has embraced the mad scientist side of her unknown heritage. But she'll need new idols to succeed. Once finding out the government's plans, she jumped on, and is currently restarting her idol business in this turbulent time.

Quote: "One Step at a Time to Happiness and Security! Starlife Idols~" Yeah, that should do. Now to post these and get started on some new friends.

Despite all this, she really isn't the heroic sort, huh. My Pace describes her well.

[Glass]

Will make a full sheet later today when free time is obtained.
They’ll be Heroic/Cold with specialties Shields and Temporal Distortion; the plan is to focus on developing and producing equipment, particularly for defensive purposes.

[Naturegirl1999]

Name: Quipzee Wit
Species: Lanternspawn
Creed: Heroic/Passionate
Specialties: Biology, Comedy
Appearance: Lanternspawn are black spheres of various sizes with six eyes. Lanternspawn start out at around the size of a spark, feeding off of whatever emotions happen to be nearby. Some of the largest lanternspawn might be the size of a cat. Each eye is a different color of the rainbow. They appear to float due to taking in air and propelling themselves where they need to go.  When they are on the ground, they spawn six legs perpendicular to their eyes. Their mouth is in the center of the eyes and cannot be seen unless it is open. The open mouth is in the shape of a hexagon, with each corner pointing to each eye. Lanternspawn can talk, however they don't have their own voices, so they mimic other voices to talk. The color of the inside of the mouth varies depending on which emotion it is eating. A lanternspawn at a bar might be feeding on joy, so the inside of its mouth would be yellow. Another lanternspawn in the same bar might be feeding on anger near a fight. Its mouth would be red. They can feed on the emotions of others creatures, though the first emotion they detect is the one they get the most energy from. As their name implies, they sometimes spawn from lanterns, usually around areas with high amounts of magic. The eyes can be next to any other in any order, whether it be red, green, orange, blue, yellow, then purple; or green, orange, purple, yellow, blue, then red: or any other combination. the eyes are always arranged in a hexagon. The eyes are also different in size depending on how much of each emotion the particular lanternspawn has eaten. Curiously this is convergent with Plutchik's emotion wheel.
Red for annoyance, anger, and rage
Orange for interest, anticipation and vigilance
Yellow for serenity, joy and ecstasy
Green for acceptance, trust, admiration, apprehension, fear, and terror
Blue for distraction, surprise, amazement, pensiveness, sadness, and grief
Purple for boredom, disgust and loathing.
Example, a lanternspawn that feeds mostly on fear will have a large green eye in comparison to its other eyes, while a lanternspawn that feeds mostly on happiness will have a larger yellow eye in comparison to its others.

Spoiler: an image to help with visualization (click to show/hide)

Personality: Quipzee Wit likes to make people laugh. He also likes to help people whenever possible. Because of an incident detailed below, Quipzee Wit also hates Smokes and birds.
Backstory: Quipzee's first memory was laughter, being surrounded by creatures who were happy. The first voice he heard was that of Mr. Morris, a comedian, telling a joke about a piano. Using Mr. Morris's voice, Quipzee spoke for the first time, "What is a piano?" One of the audience members asked "Mr. Morris, how could you tell a joke about a piano when you don't know what one is?" This is how Quipzee learned the name of the voice he heard. Mr. Morris, confused, looks towards Quipzee and asked "What, you think you got quippy wit?" "Thanks for the name. I am Quipzee Wit. I got a new word piano. I eat what you call emotions" Quipzee Wit said as his blue eye grew due to the surprise of the people in the building. Quipzee lived in Mr. Morris's comedy building helping Mr. Morris with jokes in return for Mr. Morris teaching him about the world. Eventually Mr. Morris grew to trust Quipzee. They spent many years telling jokes to people until a particular group of Smokes entered the building. There were 3 of them. They appeared like what Mr. Morris called parrots, but with eight talons instead of 4. 4 talons on the front, 4 on the back. Their light grey eyes leaked a red liquid that Morris called blood, as did their bright green beaks. These Smokes tore everyone apart, except Mr. Wit, who managed to not be detected because these creatures seem to have not heard of his kind, so they didn't look above them. This incident was Quipzee Wit's first tastes of rage, fear, sadness, and grief. The rage was mostly from the Smokes, the fear, sadness and grief from the dying. By the time the Smokes left, Quipzee was the size of one of Morris's hands. This was the first time he felt emotions other than happiness and surprise. When the 3 blood parrots entered and started killing everyone, he felt sadness and grief at their losses, as well as rage at the birds
(Questions? Thoughts?)

[micelus]

Posting a sheet

[notquitethere]

If the others don't post a sheet, take this, otherwise waitlist it:

Name: Anton Baracs
Species: Smoke
Creed: Grim/Depraved
Specialties: Hotheaded Quality, Biology
Appearance: Beetle-faced, scarred, always rolling cigarettes that smell like dung
Personality: Typical Smoke in many ways, though he was more creative and optimistic in his heyday. Now he's bitter from years of hard luck, grouchy and matter-of-fact. He doesn't flinch when idols throw furniture at him.
Backstory: Anton had a fleshcrafting studio on Heartbeat. There he had built up a prestigous fleshcrafting studio. A wealthy elite of celebrities and thrill-seekers sought his services, to recraft their forms (no matter how alien) into the latest trendy shapes. He gave people horns when horns were in, and even tried to make intestinal necklaces a thing for a while. All that ended when Heartbeat was lost. His studio, his tools, and most of his assistants, were swallowed up. Fleshcrafting is considered old hat in New Serenity, or perhaps the local elite are pulling strings against it (Anton has his Theories), after his latest attempt at recreating the studio flopped he's getting desperate. He does still know some celebrities, and the Idol business is looking big right now...

[Glass]

Spoiler: Dariel Aegis (click to show/hide)

Name: Dariel Aegis
Species: Upload to robot, probably originally Star
Creed: Heroic/Cold
Specialties: Shields, Temporal Distortion
Appearance: Fundamentally humanoid, and made of high-quality metals, though painted with a base of silver overlain with intricate blue patterns. His "face" is mostly smooth, with two horizontal lights where his eyes would be concealing the cameras he uses to see; the left side of the area is decorated with a large golden image of a cog. He wears a labcoat that is embroidered with an image of an hourglass on a shield, akin to the ancient coats of arms of knights and royalty.
Personality: Dariel is not an action hero, he is not some grand manipulator of man and alien, he is no larger-than-life exemplar of glory and great deed. What he is is a researcher and engineer, fascinated with the process of invention and creation, and he frequently stays up late working on both research and development. This all said, he is still driven not by a love of profit or power - not that he does not appreciate these things, as they rather greatly ease his ability to accomplish things - but by his desire to protect people as best he can. He does not step up to the front lines because he sees that his skills are best spent in the background, acting as a force multiplier for those who receive his assistance.
Backstory: "Losing it all". An interesting turn of phrase. It rarely actually means that you lose everything; after all, you still have the clothes on your back.
You still have yourself.
Not so for Dariel, however. It is hard to survive the destruction of a city when you are so closely entwined with it, and it is hard to be more closely entwined than to live inside its computer system.
Before the fall of Heartbeat, Dariel had been the owner of the city's largest research facility and company, and his mind was not only in the computers they used, he essentially was these computers. Dozens of supercomputers were at his disposal; at any moment, he controlled hundreds of robotic bodies.
But none of these were any sort of match for the... thing that attacked the city. Every computer was destroyed, every robot turned to scrap. As the world collapsed around him, Dariel saw the writing on the wall. He distilled himself down to what he absolutely needed, packaged it with knowledge of technologies - old as dirt and so experimental there was barely an edge to be cutting on - that would be most useful, and stored it on the finest body he had.
A piece of him escaped. The rest went down in fire and oil, fighting and failing, but buying time for everyone else.
It will take a long time to rebuild what he had before. But first, that time must be secured.

Where I can assist, I will. Where I cannot, I will find those who can. And where there are none, I will make one.

[micelus]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Mr. Bigshanks
Species: Smoke
Creed: Heroic/Grim
Specialties: Quality: Genre [Suspense] Phenomena: Espionage
Appearance: A diminutive smoke with a false beard ethically harvested from a star funerary home, Bigshanks has a brown coloration and. He usually wears a veil and headscarf of sorts.
Personality: Mr Bigshanks is a being who once preferred a quiet life, and perhaps still does. He is a usually gentle person who acts cordially and politely, but does not shy away from being aggressive or hostile. Still, he is admirably patient at times and does try to do what is right, whatever 'right' is in his mind. He of course, understands that doing what is wright often involves doing what is wrong.
Backstory: Bigshanks wasn't always an Idol Manager. Bigshanks served in Heartbeat's intelligence gathering force. Whilst regulation of entertainment had always been rather lax in Heartbeat, it was still quite understood that there were limitations and that in any case, sometimes there were subversive groups hostile to the colony. Bigshanks was a mid-level enforcer, embedded in the entertainment world both as a bouncer and secretly, as an 'inspector.' Others would perhaps call the role a spy. In this role he stole and saw secrets of the many troupes, corps and shady backalley gangster idol theatres that did exist all over the entertainment world.As an individual, Bigshanks never owned much. As such, he didn't lose much personally. However, as a member of Heartfelt's spy ring, he lost nearly everything. His influence, prestige and much beloved profession. Now, he looks again at the idol world and thinks that he has a chance at a greater calling.

[Egan_BW]

Name: i-666
Species: Bird
Creed: Depraved/Cold
Specialties: Eldritch, Madness
Appearance: A raven with the paws, eyes, and teeth of a cat. Shifts slightly depending on the angle it's viewed from.
Personality: Not an abomination infiltrator.
Backstory: Just showed up.

[IronyOwl]

Appearance: A raven with the paws, eyes, and teeth of a cat. Shifts slightly depending on the angle it's viewed from.

[Parisbre56]

PTW